Christian adoption agency sues Biden admin to keep kids out of loving gay homes

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A foster agency in Tennessee is suing the Biden administration, saying that its religious freedom is being violated because they don’t want to place children with LGBTQ parents.

The Holston United Methodist Home for Children filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), alleging that the Department’s rules that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation in foster programs that get federal money violates their rights.

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“It would substantially burden Holston Home’s exercise of its religious beliefs to knowingly engage in child placing activities in connection with couples who may be romantically cohabitating but not married, or who are couples of the same biological sex,” the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit is referring to a regulation put in place by the Obama administration that the Trump administration granted religious exemptions for. HHS is no longer granting those religious exemptions under President Joe Biden.

While Holston says that it believes it’s in the best interests of the child to be placed in a Christian home headed by a married, heterosexual couple, it doesn’t actually argue so much in the lawsuit, possibly because it knows that the facts are not on its side.

Instead, Holston’s lawsuit is only about…

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